[nobrakes8]

Multischool teams are great if you could get kids from another school involved. My school's principal and dean of students are pushing for a FIRST team, the problem is the guy we want to be an advisor isn't completely sure if he could take the time to do it. If he agrees we'd probably combine (or offer to combine) with an existing team because we're in a key sponsor area with 2 existing teams within 10 minutes of our school.

In the past we have had members on Team 237 and 1071 (I don't think either team regrets it or has a bad thing to say about the years they were multischool). Unfortunatly, neither team has maintained a close relationship with my school over the years, but if either team decided to really push FIRST and demo robots to our students and help kids put presure on teachers to become advisors, the administration would have OKed it. After we had a few kids on team 237, a few kids on 1071, my school now realizes it's a good program to look into really supporting since we've had kids continue to join teams year after year. I'm willing to bet you guys could find another school or two that would be like mine and allow you guys to come in and open up your team to their students.

Who knows, if you guys find another school that's interested, you may find that they have a generous board of education to put up some money for the team as wekk,

If worse comes to worse, maybe your advisors and students could find another team nearby to combine with for a year or two and try and rebuild the program.